Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-06-24
BRIEFS.

We are bound u nav
ball. 49,, ss tho longest tlay
Of the year. ,. av,.nound
Ms, on Tuesday - -, -.
IN. cherry season is here Out tue
liberties are ripe and are being
old in town plen'ifolly'
GENTLE rain on Wednesday evening
80 m vegetation nicely.
~..,sstown has a scamp who goes
., nights cutting down young
.hade trees :.
...ot that he uses a wart on his neck tor
collar button
4 big force Of men is working on the
80 bridge now. 1t will be pushed
M, = completion as rapidly as possible.
couple of men from Washington
1t last Saturday and Sunday in Shep-
ssr5.,Own, and devoted both days to
fishing. ;. .,o Tho.
,n.ner is to be started at Harper's
r,.,r soon. 1t is to be Republican in
politics.
Tho West Virginia Educational Asso-
,.,,oo meets at Charleston July 9th,
81 and 7th. A most interesting session
bsxpected.
uo, VIM. L. Wilson has been invited
..hs one of the speakers at the 4th Of
TnIv celebration of Tammany Hall,
New York.
Va are indebted to Rev. b. F. Baus-
mann. who is always thoughtful forge,
.li,or for interesting Pennsylvania
newspapers.
The County Court of Berkeley county
b. fixed the county levy at 40 cents on
II. hundred dollars-five cents more
than in Jefferson.
Some new wheat has been received in
R,nimore, raised in Southern Virginia
and on the Eastern Shore Of Maryland.
Il brOught good prices.
The Free Press is responsible for the
statement that Charlestown hen laid
two large hard-shelled eggs within a
half hour. Brother Gallaher!
Mr.. James S. Cunningham, prom
inenl farmer in Falling Waters district,
near Martinsburg, died suddenly on
Saturday in his eighty-fifth year.
The Spirit says that an important
event in Judge Beckwith's household
pecessitated an adjournment of Court
for one day last week. It's boy.
It's said that ShepherdsIown girls
will dispense with trunks when they
20 visiting this summer. They will
carry their baggage in their bustles.
Mr.. Al. Criswell, of Martinsburg,
la: been appointed to position as pos
al clerk on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road between Grafton and Wheeling.
The cadets of the U. s. Naval Acad-
envy started last week OH their practice
cruise across the Atlantic ocean. Julian
Latimer, of this county, is among them.
In the Supreme Court of Appeals, at
Wheeling, on Thursday: Hite's exec utor
vs.. Grove ct al, appeal from Jefferson
county; dismissed OH motion OF appel
liant.
We are indebted TO Miss Bessie Renrer
for an invitation to attend the COM
meneement exercises Of the Stevenson
Female Seminary at Charlestown this
week.
A break has been reported in the
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal near Dam No.
6. It's thought TO be washout waste
weir. The delay to navigation will be
slight.
The growing col n is looking splen-
dldly. The season has been all that
could be desired to give it good start,
aud The prospects NJ present pointto
big crop.
A fire at Roanoke, Va, OH Monday
burned out two newspaper offices-the
RsrIsU and the Sun-causiDg = loss of
about $4,000. The town made a narrow
escape from being burned.
The Pennsylvania Editorial Associa-
uon to the number Of about one hundred
passed through Shepherdstown on Tues
Jay Oh special train on their way to
Luray and the Natural Bridge.
The jewelry store of Mr.. William Glib
sou at Hagerstown was brglarized Mon
Jay night. They only succeeded in get
uns about $40 worth Of old watch es
"hen they were frightened off.
Last Sunday afternoon there was
collision between freight and local
passenger train near Keyser on the Bal
''Inore d Ohio Railroad. Six persons
were injured, among them being w. A.
Moore and j. II. Little, of Martinsburg.
vi Tuesday DR.. WIN. Neill drove into
stream south of town to water his
"Or'e, and by some accident the animal
''' anu drowned before anything could
Oe uone to extricate him from his entan-
s'ement in the lines or rein.-Fre Press.
line of parlor coaches has been
paced on the Cumberland Valley and
shenandoah ~ Valley Railroads, between
-niladelphia and Luray, Va. "Oliv-
cue the name of the first coach put
'"'o service, passed through Shepherds
Town Monday.
~ 10 The Circuit Court, last week, Geo.